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DARK SECRETS: Elgar | Vintage Vibes

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/ Candillari review – Simpson’s oratorio shrieks; Elgar and Sibelius stay polite

Elgar’s more-tea-vicar salon Victoriana sat primly beside Simpson’s cataclysmic celebration of occultism, while Sibelius’s climactic payoff needed a bigger buildup

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The Kingdom: Oxford Bach Choir, BSO/Nicholas review – Elgar’s unloved oratorio sounds expansive and convincing

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Oxford Bach Choir and a fine quartet of soloists made the case for Elgar’s oratorio

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Sir Humphrey Burton obituary

Renowned broadcaster known for arts and music programmes such as Arena, Aquarius and Omnibus

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The Choral review – Ralph Fiennes leads the choir in impressively unsentimental Alan Bennett fable

Genteel manners of first world war story about repressed passion delivered with surprising sexual candour

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‘I’ve played a lot of sneery bastards’: Roger Allam on bad singing, big paydays and Elgar’s level of ‘gitacity’

He launched a thousand memes as the beleaguered Tory MP in The Thick of It, and starred in the original production of Les Misérables. Now the actor is making not-so-sweet music in the Alan Bennett-scripted film The Choral. But there are plenty of things he draws the line at …

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The Benson Diary by AC Benson review – musings of an Edwardian elitist

At four million words he beats Pepys, but the daily jottings of a judgmental don fail to transcend his rather stuffy millieu

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Elgar: The Kingdom review – respectful and admirable, but this is still a work hard to love

An excellent choir and impressive soloists do justice to Elgar’s rather inert oratorio but don’t quite match existing recordings

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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius album review – thoughtful and acutely sensitive to tiniest nuances

This is a very distinguished addition to the pantheon of Gerontius recordings, and Christine Rice is as good an Angel as any on disc since Janet Baker

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LSO/Pappano review – postwar Vaughan Williams at his most ferocious and compelling

Antonio Pappano delivered a masterclass in dynamic control with VW’s final symphony, leaving the perennially popular Elgar cello concerto that followed feeling almost toothless

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A moment that changed me: I was loving life as a cellist – then something snapped in my arm

As a teenager with a scholarship to a prestigious music school, I was looking forward to a future playing Dvořák, Shostakovich and Elgar. Then came the injury that shattered my dreams

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‘Thrilling, unforgettable … there is nothing else like it!’: readers on their Proms highlights

As 2024’s festival comes to a close, readers tell us about their favourite performances of the eight-week season that saw 90 concerts in the Royal Albert Hall and beyond, all live on BBC Radio 3

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Elgar: Violin Concerto album review – Vilde Frang’s exceptional performance makes this one of the finest to appear on disc

In a startling, authoritative performance of Elgar’s demanding masterpiece, the Norwegian violinist and Robin Ticciati are utterly convincing

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Elgar: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 album review – warmth, refinement and conviction

These performances are as fine as any currently available on disc, and a testament to the deep musical relationship that Mark Elder’s has built over 24 years as director of the Hallé

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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius album review – Spence soars in otherwise passion-light period instrument recording

Paul McCreesh’s historically informed performance of the composer’s greatest choral work has many gains but ultimately never really catches fire

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RPO/Lugansky/Petrenko review – orchestra claps packed audience as transformation continues

A warhorse work from Rachmaninov and endlessly shifting combinations from Elgar showcased the Royal Philharmonic’s current form

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A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh's 20th film – what do we make of his prodigious output?

In an essay on Kenneth Branagh, screenwriter Scott Frank recalls meeting the future star and director of his screenplay Dead Again (1991) and wondering “why the guy would want to direct a loopy, film noir thriller like mine?”

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Prom 51: BBCSO/Oramo review – Tetzlaff’s Elgar is as good as one could wish

The violinist gave a masterly performance of Elgar’s violin concerto, well matched by a responsive Sakari Oramo. Judith Weir’s nature-filled Begin Afresh, receiving its premiere, was evocative and full of ideas

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Quartet review: did four women really change the world of classical music?

The subtitle of Quartet, historian Leah Broad’s book about four UK women composers, reads boldly: How Four Women Changed the Musical World.

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Rachmaninov tops Classic FM poll on 150th anniversary of birth

It was also a record year for film music.

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BBC NOW/Otaka/Lamsma review – all-English programme flows from disquiet to joy

Conductor Tadaaki Otaka demonstrated his quiet authority and his instinctive way with Elgar during a concert that also included Britten and Elizabeth Maconchy

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CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla/Frang review – remarkable performance brings out Elgar’s extraordinary beauty

On her final tour as conductor of the CBSO Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, here joined by violin virtuoso Vilde Frang captures every moment of febrility and nobility with a startling immediacy

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The week in classical: The Decision; The Dream of Gerontius; Soloists of the CBSO – review

Birmingham Opera Company regroup, and the CBSO triumph in Elgar’s great oratorio as the city’s rich musical life thrives. And shock and anger as the BBC Singers are axed

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Absolute power, misconduct and decline: the classical music pieces that unlock Tár

In his controversial film, Todd Field foregrounds melancholic works by Mahler and Elgar. Are they a requiem for Cate Blanchett’s supremely powerful conductor?

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Australia 14 wickets from victory over South Africa at SCG Test after more rain denies Usman Khawaja

Australia skipper Pat Cummins takes three wickets as Australia rip through South Africa to help set up a final-day victory push on another rain-interrupted day's play in the Sydney Test.

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Australia v South Africa: third Test, day two – as it happened

Rain interrupted play again at the SCG as Australia continued their ascendancy over South Africa

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